Pluralisme religieux et radicalisme en milieu autochtone au Canada

`titrebReligious Pluralism and Radicalism among Canadian First Nations`/titrebFor more than forty years, indigenous populations in Canada have been working on re-appropriating features lost in the wake of colonialism. This political action has gone hand-in-hand with a rethinking and up-dating of so-...

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Main Author: Gélinas, Claude
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=HMC_027_0043
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Summary:`titrebReligious Pluralism and Radicalism among Canadian First Nations`/titrebFor more than forty years, indigenous populations in Canada have been working on re-appropriating features lost in the wake of colonialism. This political action has gone hand-in-hand with a rethinking and up-dating of so-called traditional culture and spirituality with identity in mind. However, whether at the level of communities or of First Nations peoples generally, defining a collective identity hardly results in a consensus: individuals don’t attribute the same meaning or pertinence to this or that characteristic or marker of identity. Thus it is that any collective identity is necessarily based to some extent on an essentialism that individuals agree with to varying degrees. When some sort of reconciliation between expressions of collective identity and of individual identities, social dysfunctioning may arise. This issue is discussed here, with special attention to tensions that come up in defining the religious component of a collective identity; such tensions sometimes give rise to a radicalism that is at odds with dominant value schemas. Depuis plus d’une quarantaine d’années, les populations autochtones du Canada sont engagées dans une démarche de réappropriation des acquis perdus dans le sillon du colonialisme. Manifeste à travers les multiples revendications territoriales et autonomistes ou les manifestations ou les protestations ponctuelles, cette action politique s’accompagne d’une réactualisation de la culture et de la spiritualité dites traditionnelles à des fins identitaires. Or, tant à l’échelle communautaire qu’à l’échelle pan-autochtone, la définition d’une identité collective s’avère rarement consensuelle puisqu’elle fait appel à un ensemble d’attributs sélectionnés à partir de catégories référentielles, autant matérielles, physiques, historiques, psychoculturelles que psychosociales, ce ne sont pas tous les individus qui attachent la même signification ou la même pertinence à tel ou tel attribut ou marqueur ...